Program Overview

We invite you to explore the possibilities open to students of studio art and art history in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts at York College. Learn about all that art has to offer and explore the art world in the studios and museums of the New York City metropolitan area.

Fine Arts at York College offers majors in Studio Art and Art History, as well as a minor in Studio Art. Studio Art and Art History are chosen as majors both by students who see them as an excellent base for a liberal arts education and by those who have aspirations to graduate school, or in one of the many possible careers in the arts. Studio Art and Art History require classes common to both curricula. Thus, students can pursue their specific interests as well as develop a dimensional understanding of the nature of art.

Our strengths lie in the multicultural background of both our students and our faculty. Studio Art and Art History offer courses in subjects ranging from African American Art to Latin American Art. Moreover, we offer Studio Art courses in printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and painting, photography and graphic design. The Fine Arts program is housed in the York College Academic Core building and has its own studios, a slide library, classrooms, computer labs and its very own Fine Arts Gallery.